Local college notebook: Army's Brown honored

Army senior guard Jarell Brown lit up Navy for a career-high 35 points Sunday in a 69-67 victory.

Army senior guard Jarell Brown lit up Navy for a career-high 35 points Sunday in a 69-67 victory.

Yesterday, Brown was named the Patriot League player of the week for a record-tying fourth time this season. Brown averaged 29.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.0 steals in Army's two games.

Brown has scored at least 20 points in 11 games and has four 30-point games this season. He ranks 14th on Army's career scoring list with 1,276 points. He is tied for fifth on the single-season 3-point list with 71.

Marist freshman guard Jay Gavin has been named Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference rookie of the week for the fifth time this season. Gavin helped led the Red Foxes to conference victories over Niagara, Iona and Canisius by averaging a team-high 13.7 points per game.

For the season, Gavin leads the Red Foxes (14-7, 8-2 MAAC) in scoring at 13.4 points per game, which places him eighth in the conference.

Simmons earned his third Liberty League forward of the week award of the season yesterday. He averaged 18.3 points and 8.3 rebounds in three games last week.

Simmons is second in the league in scoring (16.8 points) and third in rebounding (7.8).

He also added seven assists, two blocks and a steal.

Owen Fraser (Newburgh Free Academy) has accepted a full grant-in-aid to attend Columbia University and play for its football team.

Fraser, who graduated from Newburgh in 2007, is at Trinity Pawling Prep. His financial package, according to Newburgh coach C.T. Chatham, is $50,000 per year.

After posting three individual wins at the SUNY Fredonia tri-meet on Saturday, Hartwick junior Kevin Milkovich (Newburgh Free Academy) was honored as the Empire 8 Conference men's swimming and diving athlete of the week.